Urbana, IA Noise Levels
Is Urbana, IA noisy?
Urbana, IA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike.
This describes Urbana as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
Where Urbana ranks
Urbana is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 8,431 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,635 people.
Your street may differ from Urbana's reading
This page describes Urbana as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Urbana's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Urbana's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Urbana isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.